The company is using a mix of live moderators and automatic moderation tools to keep the comments clean.
Hosts and live moderators will receive affiliate revenue for sales that take place within the app while their programming is running live.
This is Twitch's first foray into streaming political events, and the company is using automation and live moderators to keep the comments appropriate.
With that, Mr. Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania and a combat veteran of Vietnam who was sworn into his new job on Oct. 8, became a brisk, self-assured moderator of a live televised update on the anthrax scares, featuring some of the powerful officials whose heads it may well become his job to knock.
Certainly there are practical reasons for picking TV professionals as debate moderators: hosting a live telecast watched by tens of millions of viewers requires technical expertise that amateurs lack.
It was a more civilized process than a live meeting, controlled by a telephone moderator who, with a touch of a key pad, could turn questioners on and off and let Rep. Eshoo speak.
"It's Pat very much in a Donahue setting, with a moderator who interviews Pat and takes questions from a live audience," Hatch said.
"It's important to maintain the integrity of chat while having a live stream, and indicate who the broadcaster is, who the moderators are and so on.
Starting at 2pm (EST), a live webcast of the teach-ins will be streamed from the Judson Memorial Church in New York City, hosted by moderators Frances Fox Piven and Cornel West.
For each FGD, there was a moderator, an assistant moderator, an interpreter and a note-taker.
